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in the advanced political cultures of the Enlightenment tradition the creation of knowledge can and should be paramount, and the idea that representative government depends on proportionate representation in the legislature is unequivocally a mistake.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Finally, Neave was a crucially influential person among MPs.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
Tom Lanaway
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Conservative talk shows aim at and capture a large and relatively homogenous block—white, Christian, and older.
Robert Faris • Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
What is the point of giving the party with the most votes the most seats, if the party with the third-largest number of seats can then put the second-largest party in power regardless – there to enact a compromise platform that absolutely no one voted for?
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
A social conservative by instinct and upbringing, he did more to alter the relationship between ordinary citizens and their government than any other American.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Where Balibar, as a consequence, sees our inconvertible cruelty as always about to undermine our politics, and our confidence in politics, Wendy Brown sees neoliberalism – which she defines in Undoing the Demos as ‘a peculiar form of reason that configures all aspects of existence in economic terms’ – as ‘quietly undoing basic elements of
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